Supplier management

Your best suppliers deserve more than an annual review. Your worst ones too.

Supplier management is the three-day training of the Supply Value Academy, in which buyers and contract managers learn to manage supplier relationships in a differentiated way: from performance measurement and evaluation to development and strategic collaboration. The training is available on an open enrollment basis and in-house. Each participant works with their own supplier portfolio.

Why this training

Organizations spend an average of more than half of their revenue or budget on suppliers, but often hand those suppliers over to their whims and whims. Those who address that structurally achieve demonstrably more performance, innovation, and job satisfaction from the same contracts.

In three days, you will establish a supplier management approach that suits your portfolio: strict where necessary, and collaborative where it pays off.

You can do this afterwards

  • You segment your supplier base and determine the appropriate management for each segment.
  • You create a supplier rating that goes beyond a satisfaction score.
  • You carry out development and improvement processes with suppliers that really matter.
  • You build strategic collaboration, including the difficult conversations that come with it.

Target group

Buyers, contract managers and category managers who are responsible for supplier relationships and are looking for a structured approach instead of incident management.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of purchasing or contract management; the Contract Management training is a logical but not mandatory prerequisite.

Program

  • Supplier segmentation: who deserves what attention (and who especially shouldn’t)
  • Roles and governance: who leads the conversation, who decides
  • Start photo of your own portfolio
  • Performance measurement that suppliers take seriously: facts over feelings
  • The supplier assessment serves as a starting point for improvement, not as a final score
  • Practice: the evaluation meeting with a difficult supplier
  • Development plans with suppliers: from a requirement to a shared ambition
  • Bringing innovation and sustainability to the chain
  • Your supplier management plan for the coming year

Trainer

Your trainers train suppliers management in organizations in the public sector, industry, and business services. They bring real assessment formats, conversation reports, and dashboards, anonymized but from real life.

Frequently asked questions

That’s exactly when it matters. The core of the training is differentiation: you learn to focus your scarce time on the suppliers that provide the most value, and to standardize the rest smartly.

Yes, many participants do both. The training modules are directly connected in content.

Practical information

€ 1,895 p.p., excluding VAT

€ 3,950 per group per day (up to 8 participants; hall and catering provided by the client)

Duration
3 training days, spread over ± 4 weeks
Next date
21 April 2027
Location
Zeist (office), another location by arrangement, or in-house at your location
Training format
Open registration and in-house
Educational level
HBO/WO
Group size
Maximum of 12 participants
Study tax
Training days plus approximately 2 hours of preparation per day
Language
Dutch
Certificate
Certificate from the Supply Value Academy
Sector focus
All sectors
Bookability
Open registration according to the scheduled dates. Without scheduled dates, the training can only be booked in-house.
Included
Training material, certificate and lunch
Payment
Invoice immediately after registration; payment term 14 days

Prices exclude VAT · free cancellation up to 4 weeks in advance

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